Биологи, Жулики и Гомеопаты

[arbat]

Comments

[poslushnik]

This guys resume is pretty impressive, as a quick googling reviels. I do not understand why have this discussion at all when you can check persons credentials. User shwarz admits he is not familiar with field of economics, but when real life economists such as user gaus or hiring comittee at UCLA share theirs, he is not happy either.

[shvarz]

We never really had a discussion about his credentials. Most of the discussion was focused on the meaning of my short comment, which arbat and stas misinterpreted multiple times.
I have nothing against UCLA, although that is not a foolproof criteria on its own either. For example, Peter Duesberg, a famous AIDS-denialist, is a professor at UC Berkeley.
And with gaus we talked about the content of the paper, not about credentials.

[poslushnik]

Thats a good point. I've heard economists say similar thing about Krugman: he fully deserves Nobel price for his research, but as a specialist on real world economics he is no more qualified than you or me.

Its a pity the discussion was so much centered around your comment, it would have been really interesting to read substantive discussion of his bias scale. My impression is that it was an honest attempt to develop a fair scale, and other economists tend to like it as such (hence publication in a strong journal, etc.).

[arbat]

I agree with one correction: the discussion didn't just centered on something on its own. Someone had to initiate that with a shallow and stupid attack.